Mission Statement: Family Guidance Center helps individuals and families lead healthier, more productive lives by providing an array of behavioral health and social and health services.

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For more than 100 years, Family Guidance Center has worked to create real change in the lives of thousands of local children and families, leading the charge in promoting behavioral health as an integral component of every person’s overall health.

You can see this change in classrooms across 50 schools, and you can see this change in dozens of workplaces. You can also see the results of our work in hundreds of local households as families navigate their journey to recovery from mental illness or substance use disorder.

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Gov. Jay Nixon visited Family Guidance Center on Jan. 28, and said Missourians with mental health and substance use disorders will soon get an expansion of safety net services. He laid out details to expanding Missouri’s Strengthening Mental Health Initiative, and said his budget for fiscal year 2017 will include an increase of more than $40 million to provide services for Missourians with mental health and substance use disorders. He also revealed plans to implement a crisis prevention program for low-income Missourians between 21 and 35 years old. Read More in the News Press: www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_ac7ac7c7-11ea-55dc-93a5-fb43beea5bec.html... See MoreSee Less

Reports reveal that nearly one-third of traffic accidents are directly related to alcohol use. If drug use were factored in, the percentage would bump up even higher. Here in Missouri, 280 lives were lost on the highway because of drivers who had been consuming alcohol in 2012.

Every human being experiences anger. It is an acute and powerful feeling which people can experience across a wide spectrum of intensity. Some people allow their anger to be expressed outwardly in an explosive way. Others, who shun this kind of demonstration, may choose to hold their anger within. I…